Effective deployment of asynchronous transfer mode into picture archiving and communication system

The ability to digitize images has led to the prospect of reducing the phys ical space requirements, material costs, and manual labor of traditional fi lm handling tasks in hospitals. The system which handles the acquisition, s torage, and transmission of medical images is called a Picture Archiving an d Communication System (PACS). One of the most important components of a PA CS is the network, which connects the various sub-systems of a PACS. Severa l high-speed networking technologies have evolved in the last decade, Async hronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is one of them. This paper discusses some of th e issues to be resolved for rapid and effective deployment of ATM into PACS , The work is useful in providing the latest information for any future res earch on ATM-based PACS. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved .